ABOUT THE PRACTICE

 

A unique movement and expressive arts therapy practice which supports you to strengthen your connection to Self.

 

We are client-focused, valuing and supporting client resilience and self-discovery. Inviting, rather than directing or instructing, utilising non-directive, non-interpretive, neutral, encouraging language.

 

MOVEMENT & EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY

 

Movement and Expressive Therapies offer a comprehensive way of supporting psychological and emotional well-being. These therapies have joined the widening field of non-verbal, non-analytic and non-diagnostic approaches to psychological heath where the body-mind connecting and creative enactment are central to the therapeutic process.

 

“Dance belongs to the oldest form of medicine and psychotherapy in which the common exaltation and release of tensions was able to change man’s physical and mental sugaring into a new option on health.” - J.Meerloo, 1968

 

The American Dance Therapy Association, 2012, defines dance-movement therapy as “the psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual…based on the empirically supported premise that the body, mind and spirit are interconnected.”

 

“Through dancing, I discovered that when you put the psyche in motion, it heals itself.” - Gabrielle Roth, 1998

 

“Dance is one of man's most basic means of expression, through the body, man senses and perceives the tensions and rhythms of the universe around him, and then using the body as an instrument, he expresses his feeling responses to the universe. From the fabric of his perceptions and feelings, he creates his dance. Through his dance he relates to his fellow man and his world.” - Alma Hawkins

 

Founders of the Expressive Therapies Institute of Australia, Mark Pearson and Helen Wilson 2009, state that Expressive Therapy involves “adaptations and processes created from a blend of creative art therapies, emotion-focused approaches, Gestalt, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, with a psychodynamic orientation. It is an integrated collection of process-generating, growth-focused, change-oriented, creative techniques designed for use in counselling, psychotherapy and personal growth… It has an emphasis on working through challenging emotional distress as a way to develop emotional resilience.”